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Executive officers - Interbank

Name Position Year of birth Year Appointed Gender
Luis Felipe Castellanos López-Torres Chief Executive Officer 1970 2011 Male
Julio Del Valle Montero Human Resources Manager 1977 2019 Male
Víctor Cárcamo Palacios Vice President, Commercial Banking 1972 2016 Male
Michela Casassa Ramat Chief Financial Officer 1973 2012 Female
Carlos Tori Grande Vice President, Retail Banking 1976 2016 Male
Gabriela Prado Bustamante Vice President, Risk Management 1970 2008 Female
Alfonso Díaz Tordoya Vice President, Distribution Channels 1979 2016 Male
César Augusto Andrade Nicoli Vice President, Operations 1971 2015 Male
Giorgio Bernasconi Carozzi Vice President, Capital Markets 1961 2009 Male
Zelma Acosta-Rubio Rodríguez General Counsel 1965 2007 Female

Luis Felipe Castellanos López-Torres

Mr. Castellanos has served as IFS’ Chief Executive Officer since April 2013 and as Interbank’s Chief Executive Officer since January 2011. Mr. Castellanos is also one of Interseguro’s directors since his appointment in April 2019. Mr. Castellanos joined Interbank in 2006 as the Chief Executive Officer of Interfondos. He has served as Interbank’s Vice President for Retail Banking and Manager of the Mortgage and Real Estate Division. Previously, he was a Director in the investment banking division at Citigroup Global Markets in New York. Before joining Citigroup, Mr. Castellanos was responsible for the treasury department at Minera Yanacocha S.A. Mr. Castellanos received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Universidad del Pacífico and a master’s degree in business administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.


Julio Del Valle Montero

Mr. Del Valle has served as Interbank’s Human Resources Manager since January 2019. Mr. Del Valle joined Interbank in 2007 and since then has led teams related to Process Transformation, Procurement and Facility Management. Previously, he worked as Senior Manager at BNSF Railway in Texas, United States. Mr. Del Valle holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from St. Mary’s University and a master’s degree in business administration from SMU Cox School of Business.


Víctor Cárcamo Palacios

Mr. Cárcamo has served as Interbank’s Executive Vice President for Commercial Banking since January 2016. Previously, he served as Head of Corporate Finance and Head of Medium Enterprises Banking at Interbank. He also serves as Director of Intertítulos, Procesos de Medios de Pago and La Fiduciaria S.A.. Before joining Interbank, Mr. Cárcamo was the Executive Director of Capital Markets at Banco Santander in Mexico and Deputy Manager of Retail Products at Banco Santander in Argentina. Mr. Cárcamo holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad de Lima and a master’s degree in business administration from the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. Mr. Cárcamo also completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School.


Michela Casassa Ramat

Mrs. Casassa has served as IFS’ Chief Financial Officer and as Interbank’s Chief Financial Officer since September 2012. Mrs. Casassa joined Interbank in September 2011 as Head of Strategic Planning. Prior to joining Interbank, she served as Head of Strategy for Corporate and Investment Banking at Banco de Crédito del Perú in Lima and Unicredit in Munich, and Head of Strategy for the International Division of Unicredit in Milan and Istanbul. She has also worked at The Boston Consulting Group in Milan and Citibank in Lima. Mrs. Casassa holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Universidad de Lima and a master’s degree in business administration with a specialization in finance from the SDA Bocconi in Milan.


Carlos Tori Grande

Mr. Tori has served as IFS’s Executive Vice President of Payments since June 2022, and as Interbank’s Executive Vice President of Payments Ecosystem since August 2022. At Interbank, he has previously served as Vice President of Retail Banking and Channels since March 2021, as Vice President of Retail Banking since December 2016 and as Vice President for Distribution Channels since February 2014. In addition, Mr. Tori serves as a director of Servitebca and PMP. Mr. Tori joined Interbank in 2009 as Head of the Corporate Finance team. Previously, Mr. Tori had served as a director of Interfondos, Compañía de Servicios Conexos Expressnet and Pagos Digitales Peruanos. Prior to joining Interbank, Mr. Tori worked for Citigroup and BankBoston. Prior to 2009, he served as an Investment Banking Associate at Merrill Lynch’s Financial Institutions Group. Mr. Tori received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in business administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. In addition, he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.


Gabriela Prado Bustamante

Mrs. Prado has served as Interbank’s Executive Vice President of Risk Management since July 2008. Previously, Ms. Prado was responsible for Interbank’s Special Asset Management Division and from 2000 to 2004, Ms. Prado served as Manager of Interbank’s Risk Management Division, and responsible for monitoring customer performance. Prior to joining Interbank, Ms. Prado also worked for Santander’s Risk Management Division. Ms. Prado received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Universidad de Lima, and a graduate degree in business administration from the INCAE Business School. In addition, she attended the Management Development Program at the Universidad de Piura.


Alfonso Díaz Tordoya

Mr. Díaz has served as Interbank’s Vice President of Operations and Technology since August, 2022. Mr. Diaz also serves as a Director of Procesos de Medios de Pago and Cámara de Compensación Electrónica – CCE. He also served as Vice President of Digital Delivery & Partnerships, Head of Digital Alliances, Vice President of Distribution Channels and as Manager for the Digital Channels Division. Previously, he served as director at Interfondos, Servitebca and Compañía de Servicios Conexos Expressnet. Prior to joining Interbank, Mr. Diaz worked in management consulting at A.T. Kearney and in commercial banking at Citigroup Peru. Mr. Diaz is a Licensed Industrial Engineer from Universidad de Lima and holds a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.


César Augusto Andrade Nicoli

Mr. Andrade has served as Interbank’s Executive Vice President of Retail Banking and Channels since August, 2022. He also served as Vice President of Operations and Technology since May 2015. Before joining Interbank, he served as Director of Sales Strategy at LAN Peru and LATAM Airlines Peru, Commercial Director at Telefonica Colombia and Commercial Vice President at Telefónica Peru. Mr. Andrade holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima and a master’s degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management.


Giorgio Bernasconi Carozzi

Mr. Bernasconi has served as Interbank’s Executive Vice President for Capital Markets since March 2009. Prior to joining Interbank, Mr. Bernasconi served as Director in Strategy and Marketing, Global Markets and Distribution for Latin America and was responsible for Latin American capital markets at BBVA Bancomer in México. From 1997 to 2006, he was the Deputy General Manager for BBVA Banco Continental in Peru. He previously served as Treasury Vice President for Citibank Lima. Mr. Bernasconi has a bachelor’s degree in administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In addition, he attended the Management Development Program at the Universidad de Piura, the Corporate Leadership and Management Program at the IESE Business School of the Universidad de Navarra, and the Senior Leaders Group Program at the Harvard Business School.


Zelma Acosta-Rubio Rodríguez

Mrs. Acosta-Rubio has served as IFS’ Chief Sustainability Officer since March 2022, as Interbank’s General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Directors since April 2007, and as Executive Vice President of Corporate and Legal Affairs since 2018. Mrs. Acosta-Rubio also serves as Chief Diversity Officer for Intercorp since 2018, as well as a director of several related companies of Interbank, including, La Fiduciaria S.A. (related under SBS rules) and Intertítulos. Previously, she served as Director at Compañía de Servicios Conexos Expressnet. Before joining Interbank, Mrs. Acosta-Rubio worked at Clifford Chance in London and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York. Mrs. Acosta-Rubio received a law degree from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello in Caracas, a master’s degree in comparative jurisprudence from New York University, a master’s degree in international banking law from Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at Boston University and a master’s degree in business administration from the Management School at Universidad de Piura. In addition, she attended courses on governance and corporate social responsibility at Harvard Business School. Mrs. Acosta-Rubio is admitted to the New York State Bar.